Ke Meiyu sneered silently. As expected, novels are all lies. What strong, kind, and beautiful female protagonists? That's just the side the author wants the readers to see. In reality, who isn't selfish and self-interested?
If it were her, she wouldn't be able to remain indifferent to such a great opportunity she knew so well. She's just an ordinary person, what's so shameful about that?
Even though Ke Enshu really wanted that box of treasure, she told her mother not to covet other people's things...
In the apocalypse, murder and looting happen every moment, and the strong get what they want—this is the cruel law of survival of the fittest.
However, as human society stumbles and falters towards the right track, some roundabout strategies must be adopted.
Blame it on the fact that the reborn lucky charm Ke Enshu met the truly lucky Ke Meiyu!
She squinted, keeping an eye on the second wife's movements while continuing to study the talisman in her mind's eye, then carefully copying it. It is said that reading a book a hundred times will reveal its meaning, and although she had a powerful mind and a superior memory, Ke Meiyu still diligently copied the talisman again and again, pondering the meaning of each stroke.
Because she was planning to draw qi into her body soon, she was being extra careful and even copied an extremely complex and obscure tortoise-breath talisman to conceal her cultivation level.
After midnight, the entire village was as silent as a desolate mountain, except for the occasional chirping of autumn insects.
Ke Enshu changed into Ke Lao Er's loose old clothes, covered her feet and hands, and quietly walked out with her head covered. After placing a specially made paper cigarette in each house, she stood coldly in the courtyard, looking up at the moon with a smug smile on her lips.
About ten minutes later, Ko Eun-sook began searching each room.
She searched every corner, even rat holes, and even men and women sleeping soundly in bed were not spared from being searched.
Although Ko Eun-sook still hadn't found the treasure, she did manage to gather quite a few good things from the various rooms.
For example, Aunt Ke had a half-worn Shanghai brand watch, half a jar of malted milk powder, more than 130 yuan, and a lot of receipts; Aunt Ke San had several pieces of good fabric, a bamboo-shelled thermos, a flashlight, thirteen silver dollars, more than 170 yuan, and various receipts. In her house, she also had face cream, scented soap, enamel basins, and enamel mugs.
Not to mention that Ke Meiyu's room was filled with soft and comfortable sheets and blankets, and had everything she needed, including a washbasin, kettle, and flashlight. The old lady and old man's room was full of delicious food, with a chest of drawers containing milk candy, milk powder, malted milk powder, pastries, and more than 250 yuan in cash.
Ke's mother's family was well-off, and she was the most favored, so her room had quite a lot of things, including 350 yuan and the only half-used Phoenix brand sewing machine in the house!
Ko Eun-sook, being reborn, didn't care about these things; her resentment was even stronger.
She picked out Aunt Ke's watch, Aunt Ke's silver dollars, the old lady's more than one hundred yuan, and the fourth room's more than two hundred yuan, and stuffed them into the back, front, and under the bed rat hole of Ke Meiyu's house.
After finishing everything, Ke Enshu patted the dirt off her hand wrappings, already impatiently anticipating the chaos of tomorrow.
After Ke Enshu left, Ke Meiyu opened her eyes and sat up. Tsk tsk, does her face look like a soft dough? Is she really that easy to bully?
After copying the talisman for a while, Ke Meiyu heard four breathing sounds rising and falling in the second room, so she dug out all the things and replaced them with various nuts that she had picked on the spot in the deep mountains, such as chestnuts, walnuts, hazelnuts, etc., and she made sure to have all of them!
Clutching the things she had dug out, she thought for a moment and then quietly buried them under the second wife's bed!
The sky gradually turned a pale white, as if autumn frost had wrapped the world in a thin veil.
Things are different now than before. Although it's the off-season for farming, everyone gets up earlier to build houses.
Grandma Ke habitually opened her eyes to look at the light coming through the curtains, reached for her pillow, and after a couple of gropes, found nothing.
Startled awake, she quickly sat up and began to rummage around.
"What are you doing? It's still early, go back to sleep," the eldest Ke family member opened one eye, turned over and continued sleeping, muttering, "You're just showing off, glancing at the clock as soon as you open your eyes. Do you think time won't pass if you don't look at it?"
"I've lived most of my life without a watch, and I've still made it through, haven't I?"
"No, husband," Aunt Ke cried anxiously, "did you touch my watch? It was here last night, how could it be gone after I slept?"
"Did you snuggle into my nest?" The eldest son of the Ke family didn't take it seriously and gave a vague reply.
Aunt Ke pulled the blankets all the way up and even stood up to shake them. "No, I remember very clearly. Were we robbed?"
Thinking about what happened yesterday, she immediately felt panicked.
Without a blanket, the eldest son of the Ke family was also awakened by the morning chill.
"Don't worry, look carefully, maybe you forgot where."
"Then you can help me look for it too. It's a Shanghai brand watch, and I haven't been willing to wear it outside for even a day."
The couple put on their clothes, pulled back the curtain, and began rummaging through drawers and cabinets looking for things.
The third wife woke up early as well. Just as Aunt Ke sat up, she heard something fall off the bed. The buzzing sound of the air churning was very familiar.
She looked closely and saw a silver coin, polished to a shine, spinning on the ground.
"My dear husband," Aunt Ke stood up, swaying slightly, and leaned on the table, calling out softly, "Did I... did I see wrong? How did our silver dollar fall to the ground?"
"No way?" The third son of the Ke family opened his eyes and said with a smile, "Your money-grubbing nature is just like your mother's. You have to be fond of it every day. Did you lose one when you were counting yesterday?"
Aunt Ke hurriedly climbed onto the kang (a heated brick bed) and rummaged through her belongings. What she saw only worsened her situation: "My silver dollars are all gone!"
Ke's third son was also startled and leaned over. He had seen his wife put the silver coins in yesterday.
The two quickly tidied up the bed and searched everywhere, hoping that other silver coins might be scattered somewhere.
Just then, the old woman's shrill voice suddenly rang out from the main room: "Which heartless bastard is that!"
All the adults in the Ke family got up and rushed over in a panic. Even the neighbors stood on tiptoe by the courtyard wall, peeking out to see what was going on.
The old man, wearing his coat, said in a deep voice to the eldest son of the Ke family who was the first to arrive, "Your mother is missing something. Help us look for it, but don't let the children know, lest word get out and people laugh at us!"
The eldest son of the Ke family quickly stopped the younger generation at the door before turning around anxiously to ask, "Father, is Mother also missing something?"
"Big brother, you guys too..." The third son of the Ke family opened his mouth in surprise, and his expression was not very good.
Ke's fourth son's heart skipped a beat. He hurriedly went out, grabbed his mother, and whispered, "Go quickly and see if we've lost anything! It seems like Mom, my eldest brother, and my third brother's houses are all missing!"
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